Monday, June 9, 2014

Top Ten Tuesday: Best Reads So Far This Year

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Top 10 Books I've Read So Far This Year (All covers courtesy of goodreads.com unless otherwise linked.)This one's kind of hard for me because so far I haven't read as many books this year as last year, and of the ones I have read, most are part of series. So, I may list series instead of individual books, which means I probably won't hit ten.

6. The Fault in Our Stars by John Green -- The review for this one will be up on my other blog tomorrow. This is another one I'm not sure belongs on a "best" list for me, but it's one of the few fiction stand-alones I've read this year, and I did like it overall.

5. Allegiant by Veronica Roth -- I don't know that I call this one of the "best" because I had very mixed feelings about this third installment, but I was glad to finish the series, which I liked a lot overall.

4. The Mortal Instruments series by Cassandra Clare -- I began this series late last year, but read books 4 and 5 at the beginning of 2014. Book 6 is out now, I believe, but I haven't gotten to it yet. :(

3. The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan -- I'm continuing with my read-along of this series. It's not by far the first time I've read it, but it's pretty much my favorite series ever, so I'm always up for reading it. Since the beginning of the year, we've gotten through books 7, 8, and 9.

2. The Soul Screamers series by Rachel Vincent -- This is one I've been meaning to read for a while and I read the entire series this year. Though neither YA nor paranormal are generally my thing, I actually thoroughly enjoyed this series.

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Yay for Brandon Sanderson! :) You know, I still haven't gotten around to TFiOS, even though I've heard so many good things about it from fellow bloggers + my cousin was recommending it to me. One of these days, surely, lol

Nice picks! I looooooved The Soul Screamers series! And I'm probably the odd reader out, because I liked Allegiant. Yes, I had the emotions towards the end, but then there was a sort of acceptance afterwards when I reflected on it all!

Both are great, Kyra. Hope you get to them soon. BTW, have you checked out my Street Games series? My MC has your name. :D Here's a link if you're interested: http://www.amazon.com/Dark-Remnants-Street-Games-L-K-ebook/dp/B00EXR3II2/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1402444066&sr=8-1&keywords=dark+remnants

I am loving the Mortal Instruments series too. The the Wheel of Time series. I need to start those again. I read the first couple books years ago. The size of the books and series though keeps intimidating me. Wonderful list! My TTT

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